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“This ruling is a turning point, and we will not go back,” said GLAAD president/CEO Sarah Kate Ellis in a statement. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has already said that he plans to appeal the ruling to the U.S. The ruling prevents the law from taking effect in Tennessee’s Shelby County and creates potential for further legal challenges elsewhere in the state. District Judge Thomas Parker ruled that the law violates performers’ First Amendment rights and deemed it unconstitutional. “It’s scary to be trans today and to be a drag queen.” Colby puts it simply: “It’s about controlling queer kids.”Īfter the state’s ban sparked a legal battle with Memphis-based theater company Friends of George’s, a federal judge temporarily blocked the law. “It’s just now becoming public knowledge how horrible it is there,” says O’Hara, who grew up in Tennessee, her voice quivering. And another type of legislation has quickly captured national attention: so-called “drag bans.” In March, Tennessee became the first state to pass a bill into law prohibiting “adult cabaret” performances (the definition of which includes “male or female impersonators”) in public or in the presence of minors. The legislation leveled against those communities spans a wide range of issues - censoring discussions of gender and sexuality in public schools, banning best-practice medical care for transgender youth (and in some instances for adults, too), eliminating nondiscrimination protections for the LGBTQ+ community. Morris, who’s moderating today’s discussion, has made a name for herself not only as one of country music’s brightest stars, but as an outspoken advocate - both onstage and off - for queer and trans people, calling out their mistreatment in the music industry and beyond. O’Hara, Cider, Colby and Symone are alums (and, in a few cases, winners) of some of TV’s most beloved drag reality shows, like RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula. The five assembled today frequently, and fervently, use their respective individual platforms to speak against such attacks on the LGBTQ+ community.

That’s more than double the amount of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation introduced in the same legislative session in 2022.

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The mention of DeSantis - who recently signed a batch of anti-LGBTQ+ bills into law that collectively amount to a full attack on the civil rights of queer and trans people in Florida - is just one reminder that in 2023 alone, over 450 bills targeting LGBTQ+ rights have been introduced by right-wing politicians into state legislatures across the country, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Maren Morris, Sasha Colby, Symone, Eureka O’Hara & Landon Cider: Photos From…īut the shadow of the world outside can’t stay beyond this room for long.